Anchoring a Professional Practice Model

Developing a professional practice model (PPM) is essential to articulating professional nursing practice. The PPM serves as a theoretical, practical, and visual representation of the underlying culture and nursing practice. This article describes one organization’s experience engaging clinical nurs...

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Published inNurse leader Vol. 18; no. 6; pp. 552 - 556
Main Authors Keleekai-Brapoh, Nowai, Toresco, Deborah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.12.2020
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Summary:Developing a professional practice model (PPM) is essential to articulating professional nursing practice. The PPM serves as a theoretical, practical, and visual representation of the underlying culture and nursing practice. This article describes one organization’s experience engaging clinical nurses in developing, implementing, and evaluating a new PPM as part of the Magnet® journey. Transformational nurse leaders collaborated with staff and empowered them to take ownership of their practice by developing the PPM and embedding it into nursing processes at all levels, including a restructuring of the shared governance model. Both pre- and post-implementation evaluation of the PPM confirmed that it was strongly aligned with nursing practice. Collaboration to successfully integrate a PPM can create a common identity for nurses in diverse practice settings and roles within an organization.
ISSN:1541-4612
1541-4620
DOI:10.1016/j.mnl.2020.08.007